Everything Man

[Spoken Intro: Sonia Sanchez]

I don't...

Remember the first time I heard Kweli

I don't remember what I was doing

There were no remembered witnesses to my doings

But it seems like I've known him, forever

He who has, moved through mornings and midnights

Through, deaths and dawns

To document our bones our blood our lives

Listen, listen to his exact wings

Strumming mists from clouds

Listen, listen a man always punctual with his, mouth

Listen to his, revolution of syllables

Scoping lightning from his pores

Keeping time, with his hurricane beat

Asking us to pick ourselves up and become thunder

[Intro: Talib Kweli]

Yeah, they say you can't please everybody...

Let's go! Yeah, ay, they ain't know what that sound like

Feel the heartbeat, feel the heartbeat

On your eardrum, we got a new heartbeat

Feel the heartbeat, feel the heartbeat

On your eardrum, we got a new heartbeat

[Verse 1: Talib Kweli]

Yo, what becomes of a dream deferred

That never makes it to the world to be seen or heard

Do it breathe? Do it got a heartbeat? Is it alive?

Do it leave only to become a star in the sky?

I believe, no scratch that I know, this ain't my full potential

Only usin' 10 percent of my mental on instrumentals

But incidentally my, energy heavenly

Can he be so ill there ain't no, pill or no remedy

The maker of memories posess the recipe to your fate

Make no mistake there ain't no escapin' your destiny

Especially when, 'til death do us part, like wedding rings

I'll be here forever, put that on e'rything

[Chorus]

You're everything, man

You're everything, man

[Verse 2: Talib Kweli]

Your Alpha and your Omega, your beginning and your end

Your father, your brother, your lover, your friend

The blood in your vein that gets spilled and, runs in the drain

That's right my flow one and the same, the joy and the pain

My name, the burner that destroy the toy and the train

All city all night I'm enjoyin' the fame

I'm a hustler, I'm a gangster and a rebel with the rank of a general

In the battle between God or the Devil

I lay claim to your spirit, your religion, your belief system

I'll do your hittin', your catchin' and your relief pitchin'

This kid proficient in, every position

The man of your dreams and your nightmares commandin' your vision

'Til it's quite clear like light beer, yeah I'm standin right here

I get you hot but stay cooler than the night air

I try to fit it in the same rhyme

But realize, I can't be everything to everyone at the same time

[Chorus]

You're everything, man

You're everything, man

[Outro]

First time I heard him, I was in Japan

Seems like the first time I heard him was like, the Reflection, Reflection Eternal

Like when Kanye came out I guess was when I started to listen, I hate to say that but

New York native, and serious Talib fan

I came all the way from Puerto Rico just to see Talib Kweli

Him, Mos Def all of them man, I need them out here in my life

It's a rainy morning in New York City